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Journal of American Foreign Policy (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Journal of American Foreign Policy - New Issues Poetry & Prose Author:Jeff Hoffman Winner of the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize — ''The way memory and grief and love compose the stories that enable us to go on living. The toxic mix of innocence and inadvertence, wishfulness and making-do that comes to look like purpose. Which on the scale of nations we call 'policy.' These brilliant poems have leverage on it all: micro- and macro... more »- and the sorry, human mess we too often make of both. They also have so masterful a way with idiom and timing that even the sternest insight is leavened with a measure of joy. Tonic intelligence, exhilarating craftsmanship: Jeff Hoffman's fine first book is a gift to us all.'' - Linda Gregerson, from the Judge's Citation« less